Sofa-bedstead



UNITED STATES PATENT GFFTCE.

W. H. TENDLER AND JOHN F. MOESHLIN, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOFA-BEDS'IEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,832, dated August 28, 1860.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. TEND- LER and JOHN F. MoEsHLIN, ofCambridge, in the county of Hiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in the Sofa-Bedstead, and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure l, is a plan; Fig. 2, a front elevation, and Fig. 3, an end viewof the sofa bedstead in an unfolded state and furnished with ourinvention; Fig. 4, is a transverse section of it as folded together.

In constructing a sofa bedstead so as to operate in manner ashereinafter described, its mattress or bed foundation is to be made intwo separate rectangular frames, (1, 7), 011 which the mattress is to belaid and fixed. The two parts of such foundation A, are, at each end ofit to be connected together by a link or connection bar, C, placedflatwise against the end as shown in the drawings, and so as to lap anequal distance on each frame, a, b, the said bar, C, being connected tothe two parts, a, b, by means of pins, 6, 6, going through the bar andso as to enable the latter to turn respectively on them.

The rear edge of the front mattress frame is hinged near each of itsends to the top part of a vertical standard or post, D, extended fromand above a sofa frame, E, as shown in the drawings. This sofa frame ismade with a chamber or recess, F, for reception of the mattress or bedand its foundation when they are folded together. Furthermore, there isa seat, G, hinged to the front part of the sofa frame and so as to becapable of being turned over upon the bed foundation and cover the same.The distance between the centers of both of the pins, 0, 0, of each ofthe bars, C, C should be somewhat greater than double the thickness ofthe mattress in order that such mattress may be bent in its middle, andone half of it be turned over upon the other half during the process ofturning the front half of the bed foundation toward and over the rearhalf thereof. The frame of the seat, G, is also made with a chamber orrecess H for reception of the bed foundation while the latter may be ina folded state as shown in Fig. 4:.

The front part of the bed foundation should be connected to the seat, G,by means of one or more flexible or lifting straps, I I, arranged asshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 8; and furthermore, each half of the bedfoundation may be supplied with legs suitably applied to it and forfurther supporting it in a horizontal position when it may be unfoldedor in the state shown in the said Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

WVhen the two parts of the bed foundation are connected together andarranged with respect to the sofa frame and its seat and supported byposts applied to the sofa frame and the rear edge of the front half ofsuch bed foundation substantially as de scribed the mattress and itsframe not only can be folded and unfolded simultaneously but when foldedtogether they will be wholly inclosed within the recesses or chambers ofthe sofa and seat frames.

A sofa-bedstead constructed in the above described manner possessesdecided advantages over those explained and represented in thespecification and drawings of the United States patents, numbered 2el267and 27 871, granted to us, as by means of it the mattress is notseparate from its folding foundation but folds with the latter into andout of the sofa frame as the seat is either turned to the rear or to thefront, in respect to such sofa frame.

e therefore claim The above described mode of arranging the mattressframes, and applying them together and to the sofa frame, viz., by meansof a link, or connecting bar, C, and a post, D, arranged at each end ofthe sofa and with respect to the parts, a, Z), the sofa and its seat andconnected therewith substantially as specified.

IV. H. TENDLER. JOHNF. MOESHLIN.

WVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

